Under the Senate version of the bill, the agency would receive an infusion of more than $100 billion through 2029.
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Republican leaders in the House are set to vote Wednesday on
President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, which would significantly increase funding for federal immigration enforcement as the Trump Administration pursues an aggressive deportation agenda.
The Senate narrowly
approved the bill on Tuesday, with Vice President J.D. Vance serving as a tie-breaker, sending the package to the House of Representatives. If the lower chamber passes it with no changes, it will go to Trump’s desk for his signature.
Trump's hailed the Senate vote as
“music to my ears.” Still, the package has drawn bipartisan pushback, and in its current form, would add nearly $3.3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Bill would pour $100 billion into ICE and border enforcement
In terms of immigration, the bill stands to significantly expand the capabilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).
ICE’s current annual budget is around $10 billion. Under the version of the bill that passed the Senate, the agency would receive an infusion of more than $100 billion through 2029: $45 billion for detention facilities, $46 billion for border wall operations in the U.S.-Mexico border and $14 billion for deportation operations.
The agency, which currently has about 6,000 deportation officers, would also receive billions of dollars more to hire an additional 10,000 new agents by 2029.